Islam in the Modern World

Course

2019-2020

Admission requirements

Students should have basic academic knowledge of Islam, for example, having followed successfully an academic course in the Introduction to Islam. Students who do not fulfil this requirement, will have to contact Prof dr. N. Kaptein per email before the start of the course.

Description

This course links up with the Introduction to Islam Course and explores how the various aspects of Islam become manifest in the modern world (approximately from 1900 onwards to the present). In the course, a selection of countries of various regions in the world will be dealt with, namely the Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Africa. Amongst others, the following countries will be discussed Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and Indonesia, the country with the largest number of Muslims in the world.

Course objectives

basic knowledge of the different manifestations of Islam in the modern world, e.g. in the nation state;

insight into the interaction between the normative prescriptions of Islam and different social, political and historical settings;

insight into the various responses to Western culture in different Muslim societies in the modern world.

Timetable

Mode of instruction

Lecture
Attendance is not obligatory for lectures. The conveners do not need to be informed in case of missed classes. Information and knowledge provided in the lectures greatly contribute to the subsequent courses of the programme. In order to pass the course, students are strongly advised to attend all sessions.

Assessment method

Assessment and weighing

Midterm: a trial examination via Blackboard with short open questions and the prescribed reading during the exam week after the first period

0%

Final: a written exam on the capita selecta from Shepard and several articles (to be specified) during the exam week after the final lecture.

100%

Resit

There is only one resit opportunity (in June 2019) which will be open for students who failed the fanal exam (below 5.5). this resit makes up 100% of the mark.

Exam Review

If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will be organized.

Reading list

to be announced.

Registration

Students are required to register through uSis. To avoid mistakes and problems, students are strongly advised to register in uSis through the activity number which can be found in the timetable in the column under the heading “Act.nbr.”.

Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs

Blackboard

Contact

Remarks

A detailed programme with reading assignments per week will be available through blackboard before the start of the course.

Students with disabilities

The university is committed to supporting and accommodating students with disabilities as stated in the university protocol (especially pages 3-5). Students should contact Fenestra Disability Centre at least four weeks before the start of their courses to ensure that all necessary academic accommodations can be made in time conform the abovementioned protocol.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to be familiar with Leiden University policies on plagiarism and academic integrity. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If you submit any work with your name affixed to it, it is assumed to be your own work with all sources used properly indicated and documented in the text (with quotations and/or citations).